I recently got back from Perú where I attended the Congreso Internacional de Medicinas Tradiconales, Interculturalidad, y Salud Mental. I put a couple of days away during the trip to visit the library of the CAAAP - Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica in Lima. I was looking for some hard to find books that I knew were there.
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In the last post I wrote about what might have been the first Ayahuasca documentary of all times. A recently unearthed rarity, narrated by none other than William Burroughs. Searching for more info on the elusive film led me by Google serendipity to Peruvian author Carlos Calderón Fajardo, who wrote a book about Borroughs second visit to Perú in 1993. Burroughs first visit, in 1953, was looking for ayahuasca, and turned into the famous Yaje Letters (newly edited
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[Texto en español debajo del video]Drifting in YouTube I found this jewel below, a documentary about ayahuasca narrated by none other than William Burroughs. I had no idea this film existed, nor could I find any info about on the net. It's not mentioned by the all-knowing imdb or any of the numerous and extensive Burroughs bibliographies arround. Asking the Burroughs experts at RealityStudio I found out that the documentary was most likely directed
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(texto en español debajo del video)In my very first post in this blog I talked about the great distance that separates Brazilian drinkers from the vegetalista and curandero traditions at the origin their of ayahuasca use. Generally speaking vegetalistas in Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, etc know nothing about the ayahuasca churches, and vice versa. This seems to be slowly changing, starting in the very area where the two traditions began to separate, in Acre, where the Santo Daime
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(second paragraph in English) Durante un tiempo pensé en hacer un blog separado en español, pero nunca empiezo, así que he decidido juntarlo todo, al estilo de mi admirado Alto das Estrelas. Aquí los post en inglés, aquí en españolFor a while I though of having a separate blog for all the stuff I was too lazy to translate, but I decided against it. It will all be together. Here are
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